How can a crooked government keep us on the straight and narrow?

Published 7 hours ago• 1 minute read

08 June 2025 - 00:00

Try as we might, it seems mighty difficult to get the Americans off our backs. They won’t leave us alone — their guns are trained on us 24/7. South Africa has become their whipping boy. And they seem to be enjoying themselves, otherwise they’d have stopped it. ..

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